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Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
- hermitcrab 7mo ago121 years to build. A few scribbles with a sharpie to destroy.
- fuzzfactor 7mo agoUnrecoverable defect exists within the sharpie/chair interface. Is repeatable. Exhaustively reconfirmed as root cause of cascading fatal errors.
- metalman 7mo agoAt this point it is quite clear that getting all the way, out of the way, is the best tactic for anyone who thinks things could be better.
- nutjob2 7mo agoMore lawlessness from Trump and his goons. Someone will sue, but Trump also ignores the courts. He'll blame immigrants and transsexuals when this blows up in the public's face. Sad thing is that voters will not understand when someone else (probably a sane Dem) is cleaning up his mess.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoAt the moment it looks like the US is in a deathrace between Trump trying to dismantle it and voters anxiously looking at their calendars wondering whether he'll succeed before he has to leave office.
- sethammons 7mo agoa list of known research location closures. The list may grow. https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/reorganization https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/reorganization Forest Ecosystem and Watershed studies in South Carolina. You can't study that from the new location. Nor the invasive species and forest health in Michigan and Minnesota. No more Spotted Owl and Old-Growth Habitat Monitoring. This is irreplaceable regional ecological knowledge, university partnerships, and long-term datasets that took decades to build. Tom Schultz is the first Forest Service Chief overseeing this; first Chief ever hired from outside the agency's career ranks. He came from the private timber industry (Idaho Forest Group). Instead of timber trade partnerships with Canada, we are preparing to gut our national forests. Call your reps and let them know what you think. Not sure what else we can do.